QuantAlpsAn ecosystem for quantum science & technologies :
From the philosopher to the industrial

Abstract: QuantAlps Lecture II: In the previous lecture, I discussed non-interacting photonic Chern insulators with chiral edge states.  In this lecture I'll consider the case when we turn on interactions between the photons at the mean-field level, or in other words, optical nonlinearity.  Topics will include bulk and edge state solitons, as well as integer and fractional quantization of transport in photonic Thouless pumps.